The term Bronx cheer dates to the early 1900s in New York, where crowds in the Bronx were stereotyped for heckling performers and athletes with this rude raspberry noise. In Britain the same sound is called a raspberry, from Cockney rhyming slang where raspberry tart stands for fart. Long before memes, it was used in vaudeville, cartoons, and radio comedy as a universal sign of contempt that needed no translation. Online it survives as a short prank sound effect for fails and bad takes.